White Nexus 4 now sold out on Google Play

White N4 'no longer available for sale,' says Google Play Store

Once an elusive beast captured only in blurry-cam photos from far corners of the world, it seems the white Nexus 4 has disappeared back into the shadows, at least for the moment. The device is now sold out on the U.S. Google Play Store, where both the 8 and 16-gigabyte versions are marked as "no longer available for sale." So if you're after a Nexus in this exclusive color, you'll have to look a little further afield — various sellers are still listing the device on eBay, for instance.

The white Nexus 4 hasn't been offered for sale through Google Play outside of the United States, though an LG press release did state that it'd be heading to "Asia, Europe and the Middle East" in addition to North America. Despite this, the white version has been hard to track down in many countries — and LG UK wasn't able to confirm to us whether the device would ever hit British shores.

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White Nexus 4 now sold out on Google Play

Google has done such a bad job in selling the nexus 4, in meeting demand that i wonder if this is not by design? I mean really this phone 7 months old. I would have ordered a million white ones from LG to boast sales. And the asian and european markets would have been able to buy from the same day as the US market, Momentum and all that.Maybe they are just still losing money on the nexus 4 through subsidies and simply see no point in putting themselves out of pocket to the tune of 10 million sold.

I so wish there was an expansion card or a 32gb flavour of the Nexus 4. It is so nearly the perfect Android phone. Mine is certainly much faster than the iPhone 4S I just kicked to the curb. It's even faster than my friends bloaty S4.

Agreed. Google have done a crappy job selling the N4 by only making it available to a small part of the world. I had to buy mine here in New Zealand via a parallel importer for about twice the price on the Play Store.

I think it's kind of a moot point, really. The white doesn't extend to the front, and using a glass-backed phone without some kind of case is a pretty bad idea, so they pretty much end up looking the same in the long run.

I have to say, even though the N4 is a fantastic phone, both Google and LG sealed its fate with horrible sales management. As soon as it would become available, people would flock to it and soon, it would be out of stock again. They need to get their crap together next time they release a Nexus device.